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...second place, these scrub sports do not require any more time or energy than the normal youth should devote to h is daily exercise. In discouraging this the arrangement is distinctly harmful. Here we might well profit by the example of the familiar punishment of "waking the area" in use at West Point...
...does not recommend any legislation, it goes so far as to say that a college can not go on taking acres of land from the tax list without placing a burden upon the municipality; that the places in which such burden will be first apparent are those of small area which are thickly settled, and that there are beginning to be indications that the point has been very nearly reached where it may be confidently said that Cambridge is burdened by the exemption of the property of Harvard University and Radcliffe College to a degree which is not offset...
...main work was done on the summit of the mound. Here a great Roman stair 80 feet in width was discovered in June. At the top of the stairway is a large paved area flanked by massive walls, on which were found the inverted bases of four columns. Beyond the paved platform, there are probably the remains of a temple. To the west of the stairway a chamber 20 by 40 feet in size was found partly cut in the rock. A large pit in the floor was not explored because of lack of time. At the foot...
...bases. But, on the other hand, there were many bright spots in the work of the team, such as Leonard's base-running, and the fielding. Currier caught two men at second at critical times by swift, accurate throws, and played well behind the bat. Simons covered a large area at short stop, and made a remarkable one-hand stop of Shay's grounder, but his throw to first was a little low. His jumping catch of Mansfield's liner in the ninth stopped further trouble. Harding covered first in good style, and Hicks and McCall both fielded their positions...
...many years began yesterday morning about 11 o'clock at the westerly end of the city of Chelsea in a dump near the plant of the Boston Blacking Company on Summer street. Late last night the fire, fanned by the high northwest wind, had not only burned over an area of about half a mile wide and over two miles long in Chelsea, but had also spread rapidly in East Boston. One of the worst features of the fire was the explosion of the oil tanks of the Tidewater Oil Company and the Leonard & Ellis Oil Company, which...